Python + QT + Gstreamer
- by Ptterb
Hi everyone,  I'm working with PyQt and trying to get video from a webcam to play within a QT widget.  I've found tutorials for C and Qt, and for python and gtk, but NOTHING for this combo of pyQt and gstreamer.  Anybody get this working?  
This plays the video fine, but in a separate window:
self.gcam = gst.parse_launch('v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! autovideosink')
self.gcam.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
what I need is to get the overlay working so it's displayed within a widget on my GUI.  Thanks, Gurus of the internet!
ok, so I've gotten a lot farther, but still in need of some help.  I'm actually writing this for Maemo, but the following code works fine on my linux laptop:
class Vid:
    def __init__(self, windowId):
    self.player = gst.Pipeline("player")
    self.source = gst.element_factory_make("v4l2src", "vsource")
    self.sink = gst.element_factory_make("autovideosink", "outsink")
    self.source.set_property("device", "/dev/video0")
    self.scaler = gst.element_factory_make("videoscale", "vscale")
    self.window_id = None
    self.windowId = windowId
    self.player.add(self.source, self.scaler, self.sink)
    gst.element_link_many(self.source,self.scaler, self.sink)
    bus = self.player.get_bus()
    bus.add_signal_watch()
    bus.enable_sync_message_emission()
    bus.connect("message", self.on_message)
    bus.connect("sync-message::element", self.on_sync_message)
    def on_message(self, bus, message):
    t = message.type
    if t == gst.MESSAGE_EOS:
        self.player.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
    elif t == gst.MESSAGE_ERROR:
       err, debug = message.parse_error()
       print "Error: %s" % err, debug
       self.player.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL)
    def on_sync_message(self, bus, message):
    if message.structure is None:
        return
    message_name = message.structure.get_name()
    if message_name == "prepare-xwindow-id":
        win_id = self.windowId
        assert win_id
        imagesink = message.src
        imagesink.set_property("force-aspect-ratio", True)
        imagesink.set_xwindow_id(win_id)
    def startPrev(self):
    self.player.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
    print "should be playing"
vidStream = Vid(wId)
vidStream.startPrev()
where wId is the window id of the widget im trying to get to display the output in.  When I run this on the N900, the screen goes black and blinks.  Any ideas?  I'm dying here!